This web page is devoted to collecting information on my two sons who served or are serving as Peace Corps Volunteers in different parts of the world ------
Click here for my son Blake's last correspondence from his Peace Corps days.
Click here for my son Brian's most recent correspondence.

For some background, Blake began his Peace Corps experience in 2005 after graduating from the University of West Georgia (UWG); and he ended his Peace Corps experience as of December 2010. Brian after graduating from UWG in the Spring of 2008 started his Peace Corps experience in September 2008 and is extending his Peace Corps experience through the end of 2012. Blake served in the republic of Vanuatu in the south Pacific while Brian is serving in Cameroon Africa. Click here to listen to Ashley Judd‘s audio advertisement for the Peace
Corps which makes me think about both Blake and Brian.
Thanks to all who contributed to the
Peace Corps
Partnership Program web site. The goal of donations requested for my son's
community project in Vanuatu were completed on July 15 2009. Click here for correspondence from Blake on this project with links to pictures to some of the women and families that will benefit from the building built from the funds raised. Thank you.
Some Vanuatu info/links: The
2003 Asian Bank report about Vanuatu which
some statements of note are:
The poor in Vanuatu suffer from "poverty of opportunity" in terms
of a lack of access to basic services, jobs, and education.
Although absolute poverty in terms of starvation and
destitution is not a problem in Vanuatu, many people
have incomes below the international poverty line of
US$1 per day. Recent estimates suggest that 40% of all Ni-
Vanuatu and 51% of those living in the rural areas have incomes
below this level. Another article describing Vanuatu and its paradoxes.